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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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10551
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Nicola
Fontana
Tommaso
Nannicini
Guido
Tabellini
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51, 723-743)
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D72, C21
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10549
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?
Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower ...
(published in: Work, Employment and Society, 2019, 33 (5), 759-776)
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J31, J61, J71
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10548
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Hannah
M.
Postel
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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6:4)
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F22, O15, O22, R23
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10547
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Naureen
Karachiwalla
Albert
Park
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools
We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 109-128)
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J31, J33, J45, M51
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10546
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Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Jonas
Radbruch
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The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs
Agents' decisions to exert effort depends on the provided incentives as well as the potential costs for doing so. So far most of the attention has been on the incentive side. However, our lab ...
(substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.)
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C91, D01, D03, D24, J22, J24, J33, L23, M52
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10545
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Lachlan
Johnstone
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True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported beliefs. Subjects choose how to invest earnings from a skill task when the returns ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.)
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C91, D03, D81, D83
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10544
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes
The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility ...
(published in: the Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, 46 (1), 93-128)
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J15, K14, K40
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10543
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Stefan
Boes
Steven
Stillman
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You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a ...
(published as 'Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk-taking' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2381-2398)
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I18, K42, C25
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10542
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Nick
Zubanov
Bram
Cadsby
Fei
Song
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The
An investor's choice between safe and risky assets has long been seen as a behavior toward risk: more risk-averse investors buy more of the safe asset. Applying this intuition to incentive pay ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 1997 - 2016)
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M52
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10541
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Elish
Kelly
Alan
Barrett
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Recent Developments in the Irish Labour Market: Is It All Good News?
Across many countries, the rise of atypical work has been noted whereby employees are increasingly in less secure contractual situations. While this might lead to more flexible labour markets, there ...
(published as "Atypical Work and Ireland's Labour Market Collapse and Recovery" in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (4) 463-488)
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J41, J48
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